Gina Carano, Hope Solo Edged Out by Rihanna as Esquire Magazine’s Sexiest Woman of 2011

Minka Kelly has been dethroned.

That’s right, last year’s winner of Esquire’s Sexist Woman Alive has passed the torch to Rihanna, but a group of women in sports received some honorable mentions.

MMA fighter and actress Gina Carano, soccer goalie Hope Solo and grunting tennis star Victoria Azarenka were three of the 15 women also mentioned among the sexiest of 2011.

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Would you get in the ring with Gina?

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

“We always keep our television partners close to us. You don’t get extra money for basketball. It’s 85 percent football money. TV — ESPN — is the one who told us what to do. This was football; it had nothing to do with basketball.”
–BC athletic director Gene DeFilippo

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If this were BenJarvus Green-Ellis, he would have been able to hold onto the ball — am I right, people?

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